Quantitative Methods in Cognitive Semantics: Corpus-Driven Approaches (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

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• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 404
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In line with the increasing use of empirical methods in Cognitive Linguistics, the current volume explores the uses of quantitative, in particular corpus-driven, techniques for the study of meaning. It shows how these techniques contribute to the core theoretical issues of Cognitive Semantics as well as how they inform semantic analysis. The research presented in the volume constitutes an important step towards an Empirical Cognitive Semantics.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter......Page 2
Table of contents......Page 6
Corpus-driven Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the field......Page 10
Quantitative methods in Cognitive Semantics. Introduction to the volume......Page 52
Section I Corpus methods in Cognitive Semantics......Page 70
The doctor and the semantician......Page 72
Balancing Acts: Empirical pursuits in Cognitive Linguistics......Page 88
Does frequency in text instantiate entrenchment in the cognitive system?......Page 110
Section II Advancing the science: Theoretical questions......Page 144
The aspectual coercion of the English Durative Adverbial......Page 146
The force dynamics of English complement clauses: A Collostructional Analysis......Page 164
Accounting for the role of situation in language use in a Cognitive Semantic representation of sentence mood......Page 188
Exemplars and analogy: Semantic extension in constructional networks......Page 210
Section III Advancing the science: Methodological questions......Page 230
Marrying cognitive-linguistic theory and corpus-based methods: On the compositionality of English V NP-idioms......Page 232
Testing the hypothesis. Objectivity and verification in usage-based Cognitive Semantics......Page 248
Beyond the dative alternation: The semantics of the Dutch aan-Dative......Page 280
Corpus-based evidence for an idiosyncratic aspect-modality relation in Russian......Page 314
Section IV Towards an empirical Cognitive Semantics......Page 340
Quantitative approaches in usage-based Cognitive Semantics: Myths, erroneous assumptions, and a proposal......Page 342
Empirical cognitive semantics: Some thoughts......Page 364
Backmatter......Page 390